Mastering Persuasive Language Devices Like a Pro

To write a compelling, persuasive text, students must know how to use persuasive language devices successfully. This set of worksheets allows students to understand the following persuasive devices:

• rhetorical questions
• personal pronouns
• alliteration
• emotive language
• modality.

The ability to effectively employ the above persuasive devices can transform students’ persuasive writing and communication skills. A teacher meticulously crafted this resource pack to engage and guide students, ensuring a deep understanding of each device’s impact and usage.

What are Persuasive Writing Techniques?

The language devices incorporated into this worksheet pack are also persuasive writing techniques. Persuasive writing techniques are strategies to influence and convince an audience to adopt a certain viewpoint, take specific actions, or agree with a particular argument. These techniques harness the power of language, emotion, logic, and rhetorical devices to make the writer’s message more compelling and persuasive.

Ultimately, these techniques are the building blocks of persuasive writing for students in the classroom.

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Use the dropdown menu to choose between the PDF version of this resource or the editable Google Slide version. This allows you to make some of the activities easier or harder for differentiation in your class.